And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
back in the 1980's I help bring a MGA twin cam come back to life that looked a bit worse off than that one there does. we had to dig it out of the mud in a junkyard up in Kansas. I think my friend paid 600 bucks for it and we stopped at 3 different car wash joints on the way back to hose the mud/muck off it. got it running and road worthy inside of 2 years, he spent the next couple bring it back to showroom state. it was a fun car to drive, best on twisty roads.
If I am seeing correctly it looks like the MGA took a cannon ball from the right side though the transmission area and out the left side where your feet would have been. Major owie there.
Yea, parts only and I don't see many parts there. Helped my brother restore a 59 .... to showroom specs while I was restoring my 60 corvette. Great driving car. but a little under powered. You could buy a couple of decent mga's for what it would cost to rehab this junk! Bubbarust
An MGA (?) with the engine open to the elements...
ReplyDeleteMy first guess was an Austin Healey 3000, but I believe you're correct.
DeleteThat'll buff right out. Ha!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely… just apply some elbow grease and voila!
DeleteI can nearly guarantee this is a 'pre-restoration' photo. Sadly, I'm not made of money, because if I was, this would be my photo.
ReplyDeleteHelped my Dad and his friend change out an engine in his '60 MGA when I was around 13, learned about tools and cuss words.
ReplyDelete- WDS
Proof of what Takata airbags can do to cars just off the showroom floor.
ReplyDeleteback in the 1980's I help bring a MGA twin cam come back to life that looked a bit
ReplyDeleteworse off than that one there does. we had to dig it out of the mud in a junkyard
up in Kansas. I think my friend paid 600 bucks for it and we stopped at 3 different car wash joints on the way back to hose the mud/muck off it.
got it running and road worthy inside of 2 years, he spent the next couple bring it back to showroom state. it was a fun car to drive, best on twisty roads.
If I am seeing correctly it looks like the MGA took a cannon ball from the right side though the transmission area and out the left side where your feet would have been. Major owie there.
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That might not be salvageable.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a spare parts ride.
Yea, parts only and I don't see many parts there. Helped my brother restore a 59
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to showroom specs while I was restoring my 60 corvette. Great driving car. but
a little under powered. You could buy a couple of decent mga's for what it would
cost to rehab this junk!
Bubbarust
Is there a story with this one? Obviously skidded upside down.
ReplyDeleteThe only famous one i can think of is the guy associated with the Adidas startup way back when. Died at the scene, IIRC.
The names all escape me at the moment, and I don't gave the book at hand.